“We have this romantic idea that if we eat the same food and break the same bread somehow we can come together, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.”
ARI ARIEL, an associate professor at the University of Iowa who has written about what he calls the Hummus Wars, when Lebanon claimed Israel was trying to steal its national dish, turning the dip of sesame paste and chickpeas into an avatar of hostilities in the Middle East. Page A10.
Translation:
“We have this romantic idea that if we eat the same food and break the same bread somehow we can come together, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.”
ARI ARIEL, an associate professor at the University of Iowa who has written about what he calls the Hummus Wars, when Lebanon claimed Israel was trying to steal its national dish, turning the dip of sesame paste and chickpeas into an avatar of hostilities in the Middle East. Page A10.